An atmospheric beast.
Atmospheric Beasts are massive, lightweight creatures who are either native to Earth or are aliens that came from elsewhere and are among the strangest ariel monsters considered by cryptozoology.
Overview[]
According to eyewitness reports, Atmospheric Beasts sometimes behave like living creatures, but they will constantly break all the usual rules generally applied to living beings. They are capable of flying without the need for wings and their bodies appear to only be semi-solid, often partially invisible to boot. They inhabit an ecosystem that resides atop of the atmosphere which one MTF soldier described as an "air-jungle". Their origins are unknown but it is often theorized that they bear a connection to Ziz who lords over the skies itself.
It is said that when atmospheric beasts die, they fall to earth as a gelatinous mass that may resemble a green, purple, gray or iridescent meteorites that evaporate into nothing within minutes, hours, or, at the longest, a few days. This is supposed to explain a type of anomalous substance known as Star Jelly, that has puzzled scientists for some time. Though some of these creatures were harmless most were mischievous or downright dangerous to where one that was a more solid-looking but amorphous creature with a beak and tentacles pursued and attacked the Bell Boeing MV22B Osprey.
Description[]
Atmospheric beasts have the ability to change their density and become smaller, harder masses that are usually metallic in color, or they can become large, cloudlike masses that are able to ascend high into the atmosphere. In some reports, they have been said to glow in particular patterns that some theorize to be a form of communication.
Atmospheric beasts are said to roughly resemble whales and are sometimes called air whales or cloud beasts. Others resembled huge, gelatinous, semi-solid creatures. One encounter from an a troop MTFs involved them witnessing a flock of animals superficially resembling jellyfish and snakes. Believers think that the atmospheric beasts' normal habitat is high in the air, and they might die if they ever touch the ground. Atmospheric beasts that resemble clouds may engage in behavior that is thought to be impossible for a real cloud, such as squirting a stream of horizontal water at people through "lips" or being far too mobile and animate for witnesses to believe it was just a patch of fog.